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Blog: Making Your CSR Reporting Accessible and Sophisticated: Lessons from PVH

By Adrienne Cademenos

I’ve been working with Philips Van Heusen (PVH), the apparel company that owns brands like Calvin Klein, Izod, and Tommy Hilfiger, to help launch their second Corporate Social Responsibility Report online this month. PVH is on the crest of a new wave of apparel companies who report on their impacts. No longer an arena reserved for the largest companies like Gap and Nike, smaller companies like Abercrombie, Nordstrom, and Levi Strauss have started adding or significantly enhancing information on sustainability to their websites in recent years. Given heighted transparency expectations from consumers, socially responsible investors (SRIs), and retail customers, we expect to see more apparel companies—of all sizes—reporting. Read more →

Posted: June 9, 2010 | Topics: Reporting & Communications

BSR Insight Article: Report Review Panels: How They Can Deliver Value

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

Spending time at the GRI global conference in Amsterdam, where I chaired the business plenary session, was a good opportunity to reflect on the three report review panels I’ve been involved with over the past year, and to distill some lessons about how these panels do—and don’t—deliver. Read more →

Posted: June 8, 2010 | Topics: Reporting & Communications, Strategy & Integration

Blog: Rethinking Reporting in an Era of Systems Redesign

Guy Morgan, Director, Advisory Services

Last week I joined more than 1000 representatives from companies, civil society groups, and government agencies in Amsterdam for the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) biannual conference, “Rethink. Rebuild. Report.” Read more →

Posted: June 1, 2010 | Topics: Reporting & Communications

BSR Insight Article: Trends in Investor Sustainability Surveys

As new sustainability issues emerge and practices evolve, so, too, do the investor surveys that track companies' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. BSR has noticed several new trends emerging in these surveys that signal investors' increased sophistication in evaluating companies' ESG performance. Read more →

Posted: May 25, 2010 | Topics: Investor Perspective, Reporting & Communications

BSR Insight Article: The Proliferation of Eco-Labeling

According to a recent survey by the World Resources Institute, Duke University, and Big Room Inc., there are approximately 500 "eco-labels" in use for various products worldwide. As noted in a recent Washington Post article, the environmental certification field is becoming increasingly crowded as consumers and businesses grow more conscientious of product origins. And because certification is a self-regulated industry, the integrity of these labels varies. Read more →

Posted: May 11, 2010 | Topics: Reporting & Communications